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BILL FILE. No. 274,688. Patented'Mar.Z7,1883.

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PIERSOIEI J WIOKS, OF SALTEBSVILLE, NEW JERSEY.

BILL-FILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,688, dated March2'7, 1883.-

Application filed October 16, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PIERSON J. W1oKs, ofSaltersville, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, haveinvented a new and Improved Bill-File, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved file forfiling'bills, papers, 8130., from which file any bill or other paper caneasily be removed and replaced without removing the rest.

The invention consists in 2a bill-file formed of a hook secured on aback or base, and having its free end beveled, from which free end thethickness of the hook increases toward the fixed end. Alatch-rod,havingits end beveled, is secured by means of a spring to a rodprojecting from the base, which spring presses the beveled end of thelatch-rod against the beveled end of the hook. If a certain bill is tobe removed, the bills filed later are pushed upward on the part abovethe latch, which is then pressed back to permit removing the desiredbill.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,.formin g a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved bill-hook. Fig.2is aperspectiveview of a modification of the same.

A hook, A,having its free end beveled, as shown, is secured in somesuitable manner to a back or base, B, of wood or metal. The said hook iscurved downward from its fixed end, and then extends vertically upward,and increases in thickness or cross-section from the beveled end down tothe curved part. A rod, 0, having its end bent downward, projectsrectangularly from the upper part of the back or base B, and to thelower end of its bent part a latch-rod, D, is held by means of a spring,E, which presses the lower beveled end of the latch-rod D against theupper bev- 5 eled end of the book A.

In the modification shown in Fig. 2 the hook I A is straightened, andthe rods 0 and D are also vertical, the former being curved at its upperend.

The device shown in Fig. 1 is adapted to be hung on a wall, 850., andthe device shown in Fig. 2 is adapted to rest on a desk. In both casesthe springs E should be countersunk, so as to be flush with the outersurfaces of the rods 0 and D.

The operation is as follows: To file bills, letters, 860-, the beveledend of the latch-rod D is pressed from the beveled end of the hook A,which beveled end of the hook pierces the paper, which bill is thensuspended from the said hook A. As the hook A increases in thickness,the hole made in the paper by the same is larger than the cross-sectionof the rods 0 or D, and thus permits of pushing the bills, papers, 850.,upward upon the rods'O and D "ery easily. For instance, if one of thefirst bills filed is to be removed from the file, all the bills thathave been filed after the desired one are pushed upward until they hangfrom the rod 0, and then the desired bill can be removed by pressing thebeveled end of the latch-rod D from thebeveled end of the hook A. Thefile shown in Fig. 2 is operated in a similar manner. In both cases thespring E and latch-rod D close the file automatically.

I am aware that it is not new to form abillfile of a single wire madefast to a base and its two ends so bent as to be brought together, or oftwo wires, one being bent over to meet the other, or of two wires whoseends lap each other; but

What I do claim as new and of my invention is- In a bill-file, thecombination, with a base,

B, having the hook A at its lower end, of the 8 end-bent rod O'at theupper end, the latchrod D, and the spring E, as shown anddescribed.

. PIERSON J WIOKS. Witnesses:

ELIJAH S. DowE, DAVID W. DIAMOND.

